..If replicated in other samples, these differences may reflect a greater importance of erectile function in the sexual lives of gay men and greater importance of ejaculatory control in heterosexual relationships...

..The findings suggest that risky sexual behavior may involve a role for psychophysiological mechanisms that are specific to sex as well as for ones that are associated with more general approach/avoidance response tendencies...

..A number of clinically relevant and researchable hypotheses need to be addressed in further research, which hopefully will lead to more etiologically or therapeutically relevant subcategories of out-of-control sexual behavior...

..Further research is needed to explore these relationships in clinical mood disorders. Paradoxical increases of sexual interest with negative mood may help explain high risk as well as "out of control" patterns of sexual behavior...

..Until we can distinguish between such adaptive inhibitions of response and those that are maladaptive dysfunctions, we will have difficulty in predicting when pharmacological treatment will be helpful...

Lust or identity?

John BancroftArch Sex Behav 37:426-8; discussion 505-10. 2008

A history of sexual medicine in the United kingdom

John BancroftJ Sex Med 2:569-74. 2005

..The impact of Viagra is seen as the most recent chapter in this history...

..Overall, these findings were consistent with previous findings that, compared to white women, black women in the United States have higher self-esteem and tend towards more independence and individualism...

..2 years) sample of men, with similar distributions and relationships with other measures. Theoretical issues and areas for further research, including male sexual dysfunction and risk taking, are discussed...

Distress about sex: a national survey of women in heterosexual relationships

..These findings are compared with those from other studies involving representative samples of women, and the conceptual issues involved in the use of terms such as "sexual problem" and "sexual dysfunction" are discussed...

..The paper concludes with consideration of how little is known about the interaction between biology and culture in shaping human sexuality, and the need for research in this area...

Psychological and interpersonal correlates in men with erectile dysfunction and their partners: a pilot study of treatment outcome with sildenafil

Raymond RosenDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 088454, USAJ Sex Marital Ther 32:215-34. 2006

..e., subjects with moderate levels of stress were less likely to discontinue treatment). Because of a high number of dropouts, results of this pilot study await confirmation in a larger and more adequately powered clinical trial...

The effects of oral contraceptives on androgen levels and their relevance to premenstrual mood and sexual interest: a comparison of two triphasic formulations containing norgestimate and either 35 or 25 microg of ethinyl estradiol

Teri GrecoDepartment of Medicine, Regenstrief Institute for Health Care, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 40202, USAContraception 76:8-17. 2007

..18, 0.215 and 0.25 mg) but differing doses of ethinyl estradiol (EE) - 25 and 35 microg EE - in their effects on androgens, mood and sexual interest in women starting on OCs...

Does oral contraceptive-induced reduction in free testosterone adversely affect the sexuality or mood of women?

..The findings are consistent with the idea that some women may be more sensitive to changes in T than others. No relationship was found between negative mood, as assessed by the Beck Depression Inventory, and changes in T, FT, or DHEA-S...

The prevalence of suspected Barrett's esophagus in children and adolescents: a multicenter endoscopic study